DeSmuME 0.9.6 released!

This release focuses on emulation bugfixes and features of interest
to homebrew developers. Most users will find that the compatibility
is increased substantially.

Some save files may be invalidated due to use of broken crc logic.
Back up your DSV files before using this version of the emulator or else
the game might wipe it.

Users of OSX, gtk, cli and gtk-glade frontends please note that now we
have a common directory in ~/.config/desmume for config file,
saves and savestates. The old .desmume.ini will be moved
automatically with the name config but you have to move your saves
manually.

UPDATE We have released a new version of the source tarball to fix problems building the glade frontend. If you downloaded your copy before 05/25/2010, please download it again

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229 Responses to “DeSmuME 0.9.6 released!”

I’ve got years worth of work to do without even considering speedups. By the time I’m done with that, nobody will need speedups. You see, slow emulation is a problem that eventually solves itsself. Bugs don’t fix themselves.

I don’t have any issues with speed, I can already run it at above full speed for any game on this i7-860 overclocked to 4.1GHz and I prefer running many games faster than 60 FPS. I did measure a ~8% speedboost with this v0.9.6 compared to r3483 though. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy with the emulator and it’s by far the best NDS emulator out there. It’s just I’m a performance freak and if I was personally an emu author I’d weigh compability / performance around 60% / 40%.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/desmume/develop ¨The project specified does not exist.¨
okay before i have a heart attack i want to know what does that means?
tell me that you have been closed the svn for the visitors and that will be fine, only dont tell me that the project is %$#&!!!

hello, to all
first of. thx for this great emu which get better and better. amazing work
i have a computer from 2001, very old think and i can only run the nosse2 version.
i dont get more fps then 34 for games like castlevania or ff4
my question is , will it be possible some day that it runs at normal speed on my old pc?
nocash$gba for example runs faster tho, almost normal
and pls dont write comments now like “why dont u buy new pc ?”
=)

Nice feature would be option to map certain points of lower screen to buttons, like turning the camera in Super Mario 64 DS.
Even better would be option to map analog stick to certain zones on lower screen, emulating movements better in 3D games (again the case of Super Mario 64 DS or Rayman 2). But this is probably hard to program…

learn to use lua. i think it could be done right now. at least the buttons part. dunno about the analog stick, you would have to get access to those from lua which would be a bit harder than the virtual buttons.

I had 9,4 prior to switching to 9.6 and something bizarre has occured. I was playing pokemon platinum and i beat the elite four without using the save file except for tin the beggining. After beating the elite four i revert back to the old save file and i figure heck it just reverts back to save files not states. So i save it. But it wont save saying theres already a file and it was impossible to save. So now i can’t save file and i cant beat the game. Also i cant seem to load the file to 9.6 either, it won’t let me past the loading screen after title screen

This is a really good emulator. Nice improvement over v9.5. I noticed the gfx glitches in SMT: Strange Journey are fixed now. Yeah there are some lag spikes here and there, but what other emulator is as compatible and stable as this one right now? People need to stop bitching and appreciate the hard work that goes into making these emulators for us!

I am very happy to this release, I have waiting for it a *long* time, too.
I have test pokemon, it lags a lot.
I don’t know what is the problem?
My computer:
Duo core 1.80 GHz
RAM: 1GB
Vedio card: Intel 82945G

Congratulation for this release…..better than the previous version.
With this version i can run it on my old PC
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz with only 512sdram!!
which the previous version crash on this spec.
the speed seems can be tolerate faster…
good luck for the future enhance on this emulator….

Excellent version, solved a lot of problems. It’s the best emulator i have due to the fact that the graphic plate on my computer is BS.

There is only one thing that bothers me, the lay out of the screens, so i would like to propose an idea, SEPARATE THE TWO SCREENS, so that they could move about of different sizes and so more user friendly.

Wow, excellent release. I think the speed has increased quite a bit for me, and it’s smooth as butter now.
I seem to have one problem that’s bugging me a lot though. I have WarioWare D.I.Y. (U) but I can’t seem to play it. Everytime I reach the menu it asks if the timer is ok, I click yes and then it’s stuck there. Clicking no will just give a message that the ds will be shut now. I was hoping if someone managed to bypass this.

I’m very happy about the new release, but I played harvest moon rune factory until summer and one day the game started freezing whenever I opened the bag.
This wasn’t happening before, maybe you could tell me why it happens and how I can fix it?
Oh, by the way: Great Job!^^

Im havving a wierd glitch with this one. Every now and then, my screen completly goes black and the sound gets stuck on the last note. My computer is completely locked up and has to be turned off at the button.